Sony's Connect service will play a key role in PlayStation Portable's wireless functionality, offering both music and, significantly, games for download.
A highly-placed UK industry source, operating close to Sony, revealed to us: ‘PSP is intended to be able to link up with Sony Connect to offer digital music for download, but the bigger deal is the plan to put PSP games up there for download eventually, too.’
Sony Connect, touted as a direct rival to Apple’s massively successful iTunes service, was officially launched yesterday. The currently US-only service initially offers over 500,000 digital music files for download from major and independent labels, from $0.99 per track; the European version is scheduled to roll out in June. The service enables music files to be downloaded onto Sony’s own range of portable audio devices, mirroring the service Apple offers between iTunes and iPod.
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